Here are 10 Useful FFXIV Tips You DON’T Want To Miss! These are mainly for new players, but these tips can be INSANELY useful to gain gil and xp if you aren’t doing all of them! Sometimes even I forget to do one thing or the other, and there’s even more things I can mention in future Tips videos!
If you like FFXIV, and you want to help other players out, please leave a comment with any extra FFXIV tips! I would love to start a discussion in the comment section about tons of stuff!
0:20 Challenge Log
0:53 Wondrous Tails
2:05 Eat Food for XP
2:35 HUD Customization
3:27 Keybind Customization
4:04 Extra Inventory
4:36 Join an FC!
5:09 Gold Saucer
6:30 Hunting Log
7:07 Roulettes
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as a new player thank you
9,999,999 MGP?! You better spend it on the new mount, boy xD!
Didn't know about the challenge log until my second character started in Limsa. That means I did all of ARR and missed a lot that would have helped.
There are a lot of cool and neat little commands you can type in chat too! /isearch is great for checking if you have an item and will even tell you where it is. /random I believe will roll a dice from 1-999 for you and is fun for things like treasure maps to decide who gets loot. /playtime will tell you how long you've been playing the game for and <pos> is great for telling your friends where on the map you are!
While your changing your layout make sure you change the size of and move the alliance bars. I didn't when I started, my first run was interesting
Already 1K! Keep up the good work my guy!
#6 the sattlebag is considered a seperate inventory. If you got a unique item, like dungeon gear and you are doing the same thing over and over again (like spamming a dungeon) you can store a unique item in your sattlebag AND have the same item in your normal inventory.
#10 the litte icon next to the roulette is known as "role in need" (this is mostly tanks/healers but sometimes dps). This means that there is a party forming for that roulette and that role is what they still need to fill up. If you que up as "role in need" you get bonus rewards like extra gil, materia-clusters etc.
#11 lvl up a crafter to at least lvl20. This can be done by doing the class-quests for that crafter and by just spaming the same item over and over again. You can get all the material you need for that from the vendor next to the questgiver.
And why? At lvl 20 you will be send to the Materia-Goblin in Thanalan where you unlock Materia-Melding and -Extraction. Whenever you wear gear in dutys or combat or you craft/gather your gear accumulates "Soulbound" once that reaches 100% you can extract Materia from it depending on the gear. Crafter gear gives you blue, gatherer green etc. You can either use those to give your gear bonus sub-stats or sell them in the Market Board
#12 use your retainers
You unlock retainers at lvl 20 after joining a Grand Company. They are npc's that sell your stuff on the Market Board. Even If you don't sell anything each of them provided an additional full inventory for you to dumb your stuff in. These are also seperate inventories (as described in #6). You can also give them a class to be able to send them out on missions to gather stuff for you but you need Venture-coins to do so.
#13 Rank Up your Grand Company-Rank. The Grand Company can provide you with a lot of very useful things like gear, consumables, medicine, Venture Coins, repair material, Glam Prisma etc.
#14 Unlock Hunts. Each Expansion has it's own set of daily and weekly "Go and kill Shit"-quests called Hunts. The higher your lvl is the more dangerous mobs you can hunt. Doing so will provide you with some gil and Expansion specific huntmarks. This currency can be Exchanges at the Huntvendor of each Expansion (the ARR-one is at your Grand Company) for varies goods like gear, venture coins or imo most importantly Teleport-tickets. Each these give you 1 teleport for free. This saves a lot of money in the long run, especially with later teleports that cost over 1000 gil.
If you open your teleport-location-menu, there is a setting-gear in the top right where you can set when and how the teleport-tickets are used (If you have any). I've been only doing the weekly hunts and set it so a teleportticket is always used when the teleport cost 300+ gil. I almost never run out of tickets that way and I teleport a lot. You can only purchase Teleport-tickets for Huntmarks in ARR and HW (Heavensward and Stormblood use the same currency) and you can get 20 tickets per expansion per week by just doing the weekly. If you want more you can always do the daily hunts as well.
Disclaimer about tip 7: You CANNOT join an FC if you're a Free Trial player…
I used to have a macro that functioned both as a greeting for dungeons and also a reminder to eat food for exp that I'd click at the start of every dungeon (partially as a reminder for myself as well). I can't tell you the amount of times that someone thanked me for reminding them. I should honestly start using it again even though I have everything leveled now, it's still a nice reminder for people who are still leveling. Also about the FC thing: it's totally fine to join an FC and give it a sort of trial run and if you don't like it, it's perfectly acceptable to thank them for the invite but tell them that the FC is not for you and leave. Anyway, I hope your channel is growing because you're really good at making informative and entertaining videos.
A good beginner tip you didn't mention is that new players should get retainers.
Not only are retainers an additional 2 or more inventories but also let you go on ventures and sell things to the market board for gil
Funny how you PAUSE an MMO x'D
Another good tip for people a bit further into msq is to do the gc deliveries. Dropping that extra loot from the dungeons you are not going to keep can get you plenty of minions, glamour prisms, ventures and things to sell.
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something I never see people mention in these kinds of videos is how stupid useful it is to bind the controllers "ok" function to a convenient keyboard button, like F
it makes interacting with npc's, quests and all sorts of windows (turning in quest rewards for example!) sooooo much easier as it saves so many mouse clicks.
Great video as always !
Quickly becoming my new favorite channel ^_^
Roulettes are also a decent way to get gil as well.
If you dont mind flexing your role, if you match whats "In need" on the right, you get an exp and gil bonus. It adds up, trust me.